Summary and Key Points: U.S. media, citing anonymous sources, reported this week that Israel warned Washington of a new Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump. The claim is serious and comes from credible outlets, but it is also unconfirmed, undetailed, and, according to some U.S. officials, possibly an Israeli effort to influence Trump as he weighs widening the war. Trump has already said publicly how he would respond. The harder question is who benefits from this warning surfacing now.
Author: Michael
Summary and Key Points: Vladimir Putin has begun hinting that the war in Ukraine might be “coming to an end,” but a serious body of analysis argues he may not actually be able to end it, and not because of the battlefield. The case runs that four years of war have rewired Russia’s economy and society around the fighting, so a peace that forced ordinary Russians to confront its true human and economic costs could threaten the regime itself.
The WarZone
The Air Force has made a formal decision about how the B-21 will be crewed as it pushes to start fielding the bombers next year.
Global Def.
Two U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers demonstrated rapid hot-pit refueling at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, in a Bomber Task Force operation highlighted by U.S….
Jonathan Buckland, Modern War Institute
Excess Equipment and the Army’s Regeneration Problem
Marine Corps Compass Points
We may have had the best-equipped, most capable Marine Air Ground Task Forces (MAGTF) in history, but without the dedicated strategic and operational lift needed…
T&P
The new units, based in Quantico, Virginia, and Twentynine Palms, California, will experiment with new technologies and develop training for deploying Marines.
Summary and Key Points: With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed since late February 2026, the Gulf’s oil and gas producers are pouring billions into pipelines and corridors designed to route their exports entirely around Iran. Saudi Arabia is leaning on its Red Sea pipeline and weighing a major expansion, Iraq is trying to revive a long-dead line across Syria, and Qatar is hunting for any way to move its gas overland. The effort is real, and it is slowly eroding Iran’s single greatest strategic lever. But it is not an escape.
Recently, I participated in a panel discussion with several notable people, some of whom were from the technology sector, others were from the finance industry, and a handful (like me) were geopolitical nerds. There was overlap among us in these areas, too.
One of the guests saw fit to explain that, per his sources in the administration and the Pentagon, the United States intended to conduct a Marine amphibious landing on Kharg Island in the Strait of Hormuz (SoH) as well as a landing with Airborne Rangers.
Economic stability has long been considered a key component of military readiness, but a new report suggests many military families are struggling to make ends meet.
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The 2025 Military Family 360° Survey, conducted by the Military Family Advisory Network (MFAN), captured responses from 10,089 military-connected individuals across all 50 states, and OCONUS locations between Oct. 2, 2025 and Jan. 16, 2026.